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NOV. 15-16 EDITIONS: Clark Sports Center swimmers were in awe of Olympian Sarah Groff, the top U.S. triatholoner who placed fourth in the London Olympics, when she visited them Thursday, Nov. 8. In the foreground, from left, are Lauren Saggese, Laurel Zaengle, Emily Ferrari and Alina Bischof. In the middle, from left, are Annie Walker, Tessa Griger, Katie Boyle and Michaela Laden. In back are Stephanie Rudloff, left, and Mikeeli Hanson. Behind Sarah in inset photo are the Clark swim coaches from her teen years: Brenda Wedderspoon-Gray, left, and Val Paige, now Clark Center director.
WEEK ONE JAN. 5-6 EDITIONS: Cosmic Karma Fire’s Greg Lee spews flames above the crowd at the 2012 First Night Oneonta parade, which drew thousands to Main Street New Year’s Eve. Churches, storefronts and other venues then hosted music and entertainment, with fireworks in Neahwa Park capping the evening. This year, First Night Oneonta is coming up Monday, Dec. 31. The parade begins at 5.
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JAN. 12-13 EDITIONS: Jane Forbes Clark, National Baseball Hall of Fame chairman, and HoF President Jeff Idelson announce longtime Cincinnati Red Barry Larkin will be inducted into the Hall of Plaques during the Sunday, July 28, ceremony in Cooperstown. The announcement came Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
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JAN. 26-27 EDITIONS: Dr. Joan Puritz comforts Bongo, one of the 11 rescued dogs from the recently raided South Side Dogs kennel in Worcester. Dr. Puritz volunteered to board the dogs at her Crescent Pet Lodge in Oneonta. At mid-year, the kennels’ proprietor, who was facing animal cruelty charges, lost ownership of the dogs, which were assigned to the Susquehanna SPCA.
JAN. 19-20 EDITIONS: Brittney Young of Oneonta showcases the “Belle� bridal gown, inspired by Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,� at Foothills Performing Arts Center’s fourth annual Bridal Expo, the first of the year, held Sunday, Jan. 15, at the Oneonta facility. At left is Maureen Bordinger, West Laurens, modeling a bridesmaid’s dress. Over 100 brides attended the show, bringing with them nearly 400 guests to meet with 37 vendors. This year’s show is noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The dates on the captions represent the editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal in which they were published.
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FEB. 2-3 EDITIONS: Then-Trustee Jeff Katz accepts applause on winning the Democratic nod to run for the Village of Cooperstown’s top office. At left his is wife Karen. Enthusiasm turned to astonishment a few minutes later when word arrived that Mayor Joe Booan, a Republican, had decided not to run again and the local GOP, caucusing simultaneously at Village Hall, chose not a field a slate. Katz, incumbent Trustee Jim Dean and newcomer Cindy Falk were elected to the Village Board unopposed on March 13.
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FEB. 9-10 EDITIONS: County Rep. Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, in left photo, makes a point during the City of Oneonta’s Housing Summit Saturday, Feb. 4, at Center Street School. Karen Geasey, center, and Lucille Higgins listen. In top photo, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s and Council member Bob Brozowski’s grins say it all: More then 150 attended. A Housing Task Force will report back in the next few weeks.
FEB. 16-17 EDITIONS: As usual, the Oneonta Family Y’s annual Daddy-Daughter Dance – this was the 10th – was a sellout, held Saturday, Feb. 11, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union. Above, dad Brian Fleury takes to the dance floor with daughter Anna.
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FEB. 23-24 EDITIONS: Victor Erway, Fly Creek, a Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump veteran, shows newcomers how to do it at the 17th annual event Saturday, Feb. 18. The 2012 event raised $100,625, a record, that helped pay the hospital bills of ailing children. The 2013 event is Saturday, Feb. 22.
MARCH 8-9 EDITIONS: Sam Collins of Jefferson, Delaware County, and his family, proprietors of Buck Hill Store & Kitchen, breathed a sigh of relief along with maple sugarers across Upstate: Despite a recordwarm winter of 2011-12, the sap flowed and a satisfactory syrup-making year was reported. February’s average high was 40.9, the highest since 1870, when recordkeeping began.
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MARCH 1-2 EDITIONS: Wine aficionado Joe Ficano expounds on the fruit of the vine at a Greater Oneonta Historical Society fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Plains at Parish Homestead. It was quite a year for the GOHS, which announced a capital fund drive for the second phase renovations of its History Center at 183 Main St., and had raised $140,000 by year’s end. The money allowed the building’s reinforcement, opening up the second floor for development as a research library.
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WEEK 11 MARCH15-16 EDITIONS: Anybody who is anybody in economic development, including SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, standing at left, was in The Otesaga’s ballroom Thursday, March 8, for an Economic Development Summit convened by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford (inset) to explore ways Otsego County might better access $1 billion distributed annually by the Cuomo Administration. The task force that came out of the summit identified “priority projects” in line with the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council’s strategic plan, and tutored those seeking grants in preparing optimum CFAs (comprehensive funding applications.) The second round of grants, announced Wednesday, Dec. 19, were nonetheless a disappointment to many – the application for the largest grant, $350,000, had been withdrawn the week before the announcement. Seated at the table behind Kleniewski are, from left, auto dealer Steve Harris, and Oneonta Town Board members Scott Gravelin, Bill Mirabito and Bob Wood, supervisor.
WEEK 12 MARCH 22-23 EDITIONS: Ioxus COO Phil Meek and HR Manager Vicki Salamon examine ground-up Astroturf on the plant’s 3,000-square-foot mezzanine (former National Soccer Hall of Fame mini soccer field) that was being prepared for the quality-control lab, now on the main floor. The lab was being moved to make space for an EDLC production line being shipped from Power Systems Ltd., Kusatsu, Japan. EDLCs (inset) are electric double-layer capacitors used to power automaking robots, harbor cranes and MRIs. A spinoff from Custom Electronics Ltd., Ioxus manufacturers ultracapacitors, which assist in the efficient delivery of electricity.
WEEK 13 MARCH 29-30 EDITIONS: Alis Fruehstorfer, 7, was photographed for a story on parents Ken Fruehstorfer and Maryellen Driscoll’s Free Bird Farm, one of a “Farmers of the Future” series published in the first half of 2012. The Palatine Bridge couple is marketing vegetables in New York City.
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APRIL 12-13 EDITIONS: The centennial of the Titanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sinking on April 12, 1912, awakened memories of steel magnate Arthur Ryerson Sr. of Cooperstown, who lost his life in the epic sinking and whose wife, daughter and son narrowly escaped. It also surfaced that the great-uncle of Ron Jax, Cooperstown General Store manager, had died when the â&#x20AC;&#x153;unsinkableâ&#x20AC;? ship went down in the North Atlantic. Below, a Celtic cross marks Ryersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cenotaph in Cooperstownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lakewood Cemetery.
APRIL 5-6 EDITIONS: It was one of the heartbreaker stories of the year. Loraine and Rich Tyler, retired SUNY Oneonta professors, were featured in an AllOTSEGO. life article in early March on completing their dream retirement home on Franklin Mountain. Then, on Monday, March 26, high winds whipped a spark from an ashcan onto the log homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s porch, and it burned to the ground. Above, the Tylersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daughter Jessica reviews the damage.
WEEK 16 APRIL 19-20 EDITIONS: Oneonta residents were alarmed from Friday, April 13, through Sunday the 15th as six suspicious fires broke out through the city. The arrest of a 22-year-old man Sunday evening brought the incidents to an end.
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WEEK 19 MAY 3-4 EDITIONS: Dennis Nayor is sworn in as Oneonta police chief by Mayor Dick Miller, ending a period of turmoil in OPD. The former police chief had resigned in March 2011 after brutality charges surfaced in an arrest the month before. The department had been reeling since 2010, when allegations surfaced of on-duty officers having improper relations with underage girls.
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APRIL 26-27 EDITIONS: Pet owners and their dogs participating in the American Cancer Society’s Bark for Life Saturday, April 21, at Glimmerglass State Park included Astro who accompanied Lorie Sharp of Springfield.
MAY 10-11 EDITIONS: Cutting the ribbon on Tip Top (inset), the gatehouse at Hyde Hall, the National Historic Landmark mansion at the north end of Otsego Lake are, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford; Alice Smith Duncan, former Hyde Hall executive director; Douglas Kent, an expert on Hyde Hall history, and Andy Blum, who is stepping down as president of Hyde Hall Inc. after seven years. (Gib Vincent succeeded him.) The gatehouse and pedestrian bridge reopened the Mill Road entrance to the site; since floods at the end of May 2005 washed out the vehicular bridge, cars had accessed Hyde Hall through Glimmerglass State Park.
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MAY 17-18 EDITIONS: Sikot Mahoxay, general supervisor, Soil Nail Launcher Inc., Denver, Colo., oversees the four-man crew sinking pilings Monday, May 9, as the East Lake Road pavement, washed into Otsego Lake by Tropical Storm Lee in September 2011, was repaired. The road was literally nailed back into the hillside: A mesh was run down the embankment and 58 nails, 20 feet long each, nailed the hillside on the west side of the road into the bedrock on the east.
MAY 31-JUNE 1 EDITIONS: The Wounded Warriors, right, a team of injured veterans from across the U.S., and Otsego police and firefightersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team, left, stand at attention for the national anthem at the start of the Sunday, May 27, game in Cooperstownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Doubleday Field. In the foreground are, from left, vets Alan Christman, Gulf War; George Tucker Jr., Korea; Bill Bose, WWII, and Bill Haase, Vietnam. Col. Paul Russo, a Bassett physician, sings the anthem.
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MAY 24-25 EDITIONS: Barbara Ann Heegan, top photo, center, marketing director of the Plains at Parish Homestead, was appointed Otsego County Chamber executive director Thursday, May 17. With her is chamber president Roxana Hurlburt, right, and Caroline Lewis, county economic developer. On April 2, Patricia Szarpa (inset) joined the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce as executive director; with her is Becky Davidson-Nielsen, interim director. Szarpa had been director of the Western New York Land Conservancy.
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JUNE 7-8 EDITIONS: After his Tuesday, June 5, swearingin, Village Police Chief Michael Covert poses with his officers. From left are Marina Begumoff, James Cox, James Kelman, Sgt. Mark Fassett, Kevin Voce, Scott Sheldon, Greg Rogers and William Henn. Conferring in the background are trustees Lynne Mebust, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Walter Franck.
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JUNE 21-22 EDITIONS: Cooperstown’s Peg Wilson and daughter Taryn cheer Oneonta High School’s Class B championship baseball team as the Yellowjackets pass the flagpole at Main and Pioneer Saturday, June 16, during the Hall of Fame Classic parade.
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JUNE 14-15 EDITIONS: After the last pitch assured victory, Matt Horne (2) signals the OHS varsity baseball team is Number One after its 2-0 victory over Briarcliff to win its first Class B state title Saturday, June 9, at Binghamton’s Conlon Field. In the background, Coach Joe Hughes and his coaching team pump up cheering fans.
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JUNE 28-29 EDITIONS: Lou Hager, fifth generation of the Busch-Hager family to own “The Chief Uncas,” completed renovations, including installation of a new electric motor, just in time for its 100th anniversary, which he celebrated with a fireworks display off Otsego Lake’s Three Mile Point on the Fourth of July. In bottom photo, Bill Krietsch ties it up at dock. In top photo, boat restorer Tom Krieg is seen through the window of the mahogany-lined cabin.,
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JULY 5-6 EDITIONS: Belinda Mott waves to the crowd as the contingent of “Cowgirls From Heck” rounds out the traditional Fourth of July parade in Springfield Center.
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JULY 12-13 EDITIONS: Dave LaDuke dug out fire-signal cards that were staples of Cooperstown homes for decades. The occasion was a split 4-3 Village Board vote to no longer sound the noon whistle, a 70-year tradition, after July 1. In November, Christ Episcopal Church replaced the tradition when a new electronic system was installed, allowing a hammer to sound the traditional summons to the Angelus – 12 times, plus 3×3 – at noon daily.
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JULY 19-20 EDITIONS: Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, right, shakes hands with senior Post Office Operations Manager Gail Weeks, Syracuse, Friday, July 20, during photo sessions at the conclusion of unveiling the Major League Baseball All Stars Forever series. – stamps of Larry Doby, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Stargell and Ted Williams – at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
JULY 26-27 EDITIONS: Inductee Barry Larkin looks on proudly as daughter Cymber sings the National Anthem as his Induction got underway. At right Jane Forbes Clark, Hall of Fame chairman, looks on approvingly.
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WEEK 31 AUG. 2-3 EDITIONS: Oneonta’s Crystal Hotaling shows daughter Devon Blush how to capture a duck Tuesday, July 31, at the Otsego County Fair in Morris.
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AUG. 9-10 EDITION: This image from zimbio.com shows Otsego Olympian Sarah Groff in the top four with a kilometer to go in the Women’s Triathlon event Saturday, Aug. 4, at the London Olympics. Switzerland’s Nicola Spirig took gold, Sweden’s Lisa Norden silver, and Australia’s Erin Debsham bronze. But Sarah, raised in Cooperstown, was a close fourth.
AUG. 16-17 EDITIONS: A new issue – the Constitution Pipeline, to connect natural gas fracked in Northeast Pennsylvania to the Tennessee and Iroquois pipelines near Schoharie, added a twist to the local fracking debate at mid-year. In top photo, Constitution’s project manager Matt Swift outlines plans Wednesday, Aug. 8, to Citizen Voices, the pro-business group gathered at the Carriage House in Southside Oneonta. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who would be relected by a landslide in November, was among the 90 attendees. The debate peaked at a FERC hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, at Foothills Performing Arts Center, where Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller was booed by the antis. However, the Otsego County Board of Representatives endorses “Alternate M,” which would route the piline along I-88, and anti-fracking leader Lou Allstadt of Cooperstown, the retired Mobil executive vice president, helped diffuse the debate by declaring the pipeline will not open the door to fracking locally. He called such linkage “nonsense.” Seward is flanked by Elizabeth Robinson, Oneonta, left, and county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts.
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AUG. 23-24 EDITION: It was big excitement in a small town when a big rig carrying an electrical generator from San Diego, Calif., to Riker’s Island wandered into Cooperstown Monday, Aug. 20, and got stuck at the Glen-Chestnut intersection for 42 minutes, to the entertainment of rubberneckers and sidewalk. The novelty continued when the rig then got stuck at Lake and Chestnut for another 45.
AUG. 30-31 EDITIONS: Park Ranger Tom Lopiccolo, at right, admires the new park police headquarters, which he successfully nominated for an Otsego 2000 Historic Preservation Award. Ron & Maureen Johnson’s Erastus Warren House, Town of Otsego; Julius Waller’s Jacob Gale Barn, Roseboom, and St. Thomas Catholic Church’s Kateri Hall in Cherry Valley were the other in-county winners.
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SEPT. 6-7 EDITIONS: Joey Katz, Cooperstown, was among audience members swamping Dr. Cornel West Tuesday, Sept. 4, after his keynoter in the Dewar Arena capping SUNY Oneonta’s 20th anniversary commemoration, “Beyond the List: Remembrance & Reconciliation,” of the widespread targeting of black students for a local crime in 1992.
SEPT. 13-14 EDITIONS: The Rev. Craig Schwalenberg, Unitarian Universalist Society, Oneonta, blesses the waters of Otsego Lake Thursday, Sept. 6, part of an anti-fracking demonstration by Central New York clergy. Fifty-two clerics signed a letter to Governor Cuomo stating, “We believe it is a moral obligation for all of us to work together toward addressing human needs while building a sustainable future that is respectful of the earth and the wellbeing of future generations.”
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SEPT. 20-21 EDITIONS: Northern Otsego County’s “Weekend of Festivals” drew celebrants from the City of the Hills, including Red Hat members Brett Whitney, left, and Princess Sheila Thomas, both of Oneonta, and Vice Queen Deb Brennesholtz of Sidney, who were at The Farmers’ Museum Harvest Festival Saturday, Sept. 15. The same day, the Susquehanna Garlic Fest was underway in Milford, and Cooperstown Rotary’s Apple Fest in Fly Creek.
WEEK 41 OCT. 11-12 EDITIONS: Cutting the ribbon on the new Dick’s Sporting Goods in the Southside Mall Friday, Oct. 5, are, from left, Mall Manager Luisa Montanti, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, Dick’s Community Marketing Director Dan LaBreck, Store Manager Daryl Cooper. It was the third national retailer – after TJ Maxx and Kay Jewelers – attracted to the mall in two years. Petco is opening in the new year.
SEPT. 27-28 EDITIONS: Springbrook CEO Patricia Kennedy presents a book of students’ poems describing the new Golisano Center for Autism to Tom Golisano, the philanthropist who issued a $2.5 million challenge grant that allowed the school for developmentally disabled children to enhance a $15 million state-funded project to a state-of-the-art $22 million facility. Golisano, Paychex founder and three-time gubernatorial candidate, spoke Thursday, Sept. 20, at the dedication of the new facility in the Town of Milford. Springbrook board member John M. Anderson, SUNY Alfred president, looks on. It was the culmination of quite a year for Springbrook: In February, it collaborate with SUNY Oneonta on a new master’s degree; in July, it purchased the modern St. Mary’s School, Oneonta, and combined all if its off-campus services there.
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The Chamber/Key Bank Small Business Award sent to Becky Thomas, left, and Betsy Shultis’ Benson Agency, which is lodged in one of Oneonta’s landmark mansions, on Grand Avenue.
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OCT. 18-19 EDITIONS: Peter Hujik, Otsego Land Trust executive director, departed for a new job in Virginia, but not before announcing the acquisition of Canadarago Lake’s Deowongo Island as northern terminus of an Oaks Creek recreational trail stretching to Hartwick Seminary.
OCT. 4-5 EDITIONS: Oneonta’s Green Earth won the 2012 Otsego County Chamber/Excellus Breakthrough Award. Proprietors Dean and Emily Roberts, assisted here by their son Michael Shaughnessy, were honored Thursday, Oct. 11, at the chamber’s annual Small Business Banquet at The Otesaga.
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WEEK 44 WEEK 42 OCT. 18-19 EDITIONS: James C. Miles, a hospitality executive with 40 years experience at Colonial Williamsburg, the Hershey Hotel and other top national resorthotels, prepared to take over at general manager & vice president at The Otesaga, succeeding the estimable John D. Irvin, who retired after 10 years. Also this year, Val Paige replaced Dion Wade as director of the Clark Sports Center, another one of The Leatherstocking Corp.’s signature Cooperstown institutions.
WEEK 43 OCT. 25-26 EDITION: Memories of the Bassett Research Institute’s heroic period were reawakened with the Oct. 21 news of the death of Dr. E. Donnall Thomas in Seattle, Wash. During his 1955-63 tenure in Cooperstown, Thomas led a team of physicians in early experiments in bone-marrow transplantation to combat cancer. Thomas went on to the University of Washington, where he conducted the first successful marrow transplantation. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. “Bone marrow transplants now can cure 70 to 80 percent of the healthiest children and teenagers with leukemia,” the New York Times reported in its obituary.
NOV. 1-2 EDITIONS: In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Robert Behnke of Otego watches as Mark Hitchcock of Davenport sweeps debris into a pile after a tree fell onto the roof of the AAA New York office Monday afternoon, Oct. 29, on Oneida Street, Oneonta. Spotty outages were reported, and a tree fell in Westford, cutting a home in two, but damage in Otsego County was minimal compared to what happened to New York City, Long Island and New Jersey.
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NOV. 8-9 EDITIONS: Democrats at The Autumn Cafe, Oneonta, the party’s unofficial Election Night headquarters, cheer the announcement of President Barack Obama’s reelection Tuesday, Nov. 6. From left are Carol Schimmerling, Dan Butterman, Jamie Ormiston, Kathleen Avery, and Rachel and David Rissberger. Obama also won Otsego County in 2008, the first Democrat to do so since LBJ in 1964.
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NOV. 15-16 EDITIONS: Throughout the fall, Otsego County was stunned by a series of tragic deaths. On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Delaware County deputies reported that Willis Brown of Franklin had shot his wife, Wendy, in their Franklin home, then turned the gun on himself. More than 300 people attended a memorial service Sunday, Nov. 11, at Foothills Performing Arts Center, to remember Wendy, an investment counselor and incoming president of the Oneonta Rotary, and Willis, a popular SUNY Delhi professor. That same Sunday, Guiseppa Avanzato, 90, matriarch of the Oneonta family, died from injuries received in a crash on Route 17 near Goshen. She and family members were westbound, returning to Oneonta from New York City, when a Jeep driven by an off-duty Peekskill officer jumped the median and struck their car head-on. Mrs. Avanzato died from injuries, and her son Vincent, who operates Ristorante Stella Luna with brother Tony, was hospitalized. NOV. 23-24 EDITIONS: The following Wednesday, Nov. 14, Annalise Kjolhede, 24, raised in the Cooperstown area, died in a Reno, Nev., hospital from injuries received in a back-country skiing accident the previous Saturday near the Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe. She was the daughter of Dr. Chris Kjolhede of Fly Creek and Anne Marie Gadomski. This was her father’s favorite photo, taken at her graduation from the Emma Willard School; she was also a distinguished graduate of the University of Rochester. In October, Robert Tirrell, 25, son of another Bassett Hospital physician, Paul Tirrell and his wife Julie, passed away unexpected in Los Altos, Calif., where he was a Silicon Valley programmer.
WEEK 48 NOV. 29-30 EDITIONS: Cooperstown’s Bill and Janet Rigby concocted a Christmas hit, fabricating a Victorian ornament, Sparkling Tin Brilliants, in their Elm Street workshop, from a patent they’d acquired years ago in New Jersey. When the news got out, their supply was immediately sold out, and the Rigbys were in full production through the holiday season to meet the demand.
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DECEMBER 13-14 EDITIONS: Beekman Boys’ fans celebrate their win at the couple’s Sharon Springs farmhouse on Sunday, Dec, 9. From back left, Marguerite MacFarlane, Sharon Springs, Lynda Wiseman, Cooperstown, Holly Spiess, Sharon Springs, Maureen Kuhn, Cooperstown, Richard and Nancy Pfau, Sharon Springs. Seated, from left, Rose Marie Trapani, Sharon Springs, Cheryl Rosen, Sharon Springs, Sunny Leinhart, Cooperstown and Viki Whicker, Burlington Flats.
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DEC. 6-7 EDITIONS: This season, kids had the chance to ride the Rudolph ride – shown off here by Cherry Branch Gallery director Kristen Henderson – from Oneonta’s former Bresee Department Store in the Cherry Valley venue. Santa’s lead reindeer was bought by Cherry Valley’s Greg Noonan at an auction of the department store furnishings in 2006, and he keeps the tradition alive each holiday season. In past year, Greg has made Rudolph available at Danny’s Main Street Market, Cooperstown, and other locales.
DEC. 20-21 EDITIONS: Rabbit Goody, proprietor of Thistle Hill Weavers, Cherry Valley, and “Weaver to the Star,” shows off the scarf she wove for Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” now showing at local moviehouses. Her lecture on her fabricating historic fabrics, dating back to Demi Moore’s “Scarlett Letter” in 1995, drew an SRO crowd Saturday, Dec. 15.
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DEC. 27-28 EDITIONS: Once again, some mysterious Christmas Elf hung a holiday ornament on that evergreen at Susquehanna Avenue and Route 33 in Bowerstown, outside Cooperstown. And again, the ornaments multiplied as neighbors got in the spirit. “This is the best Advent tree ever!” reads one note posted on the tree by an enthusiastic passerby.
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